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BPE

BPE is the initialism of borated polyethylene.

BPE is the initialism of benign prostatic hyperplasia.

BPE is the initialism of byte pair encoding.

BPE is the initialism of Bachelor of Physical Education.

Meaning of benign prostatic hyperplasia

Noun

benign prostatic hyperplasia (countable and uncountable, plural benign prostatic hyperplasias)

  1. A noncancerous increase in size of the prostate gland, often resulting in symptoms such as frequent urination, urinary urgency, involuntary urination or the inability to urinate.
    • Mr. Goldman, like up to 90 percent of men in their 70s, has benign prostatic hyperplasia, or B.P.H., a nonmalignant growth of the prostate gland. As the prostate enlarges with age, it squeezes the urethra that passes through it and can disrupt normal urinary function.2019 August 26, Jane E. Brody, “Alternatives to Surgery for an Enlarged Prostate”, in The New York Times

Meaning of byte pair encoding

Noun

byte pair encoding (countable and uncountable, plural byte pair encodings)

  1. A lossless data compression algorithm that iteratively replaces the most frequent pair of adjacent bytes in a sequence with a new byte not already present in the data.
  2. (natural language processing) A subword tokenization method that iteratively merges the most frequent pairs of adjacent characters in a corpus to form longer and more meaningful tokens, typically until a predefined vocabulary size is reached.

Forms of BPE

pluralBPEs

Questions about BPE

What is BPE the initialism of?
BPE is the initialism of borated polyethylene.

Words near BPE in the dictionary

  1. bpd
  2. bpdc
  3. bpdemon
  4. BPDer
  5. BPDers
  6. BPE
  7. BPEL
  8. BPES
  9. BPF
  10. BPFs
  11. BPH

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Adapted from Wiktionary: BPE (page history and authors); benign prostatic hyperplasia (page history and authors); byte pair encoding (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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